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Summary Of: Ik
The Ik were displaced from their land to create a... The Ik people live in several small villages arranged in clusters... is not certain whether this practice is typical Ik tradition or merely triggered by unusual famine conditions... arguing that Ik society was already destroyed and all that could be done was to save individual tribal... is evidence that Turnbull had limited knowledge of Ik language and tradition... He seems to have misrepresented the Ik by describing them as traditionally hunters and gatherers forced by circumstance to become farmers... is ample linguistic and cultural evidence that the Ik were farmers long before they were displaced from their hunting grounds after the formation of... the event which Turnbull claims forced the Ik to become farmers... who studied the Ik in early 1983... s claim that Ik raided cattle and frequently did... parts of Dodoth County where no mention of Ik raiding livestock can be found in any of these documents... s claims that adultery was common among the Ik is contrary to statements of informants interviewed by Bernd Heine in 1983... All Ik elders interviewed stated that there are no indications whatsoever in the oral traditions to suggest... s account of Ik culture turned out to be at variance with most observations we made... Encyclodia Page On: Ik
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